Quotes about Suffering
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
— Virginia Woolf
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
— John Calvin
Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
— Timothy Keller
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
— Booker T. Washington
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
— Teresa of Avila
Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.
— Lee Strobel
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
— Samuel Rutherford
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
— Jack Kerouac
Every call of Christ leads into death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer